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VariCam 3700, Cinedeck, green screen, dual stream 444, ProRes 4444 vs Uncompressed 10-bit 444
Hello all,
I thought I would query the collective mind that is the Cow.
Title sums it up nicely. Apart from being almost 6x as large, is there any reason I should favor uncompressed over ProRes 4444 as my acquisition format for green screen work.
The media on the Cinedeck are two 256 GB 2.5″ SSD drives, which gives me a little over 20 mins record time, which could be a bit of a bottleneck on set with a roughly 50 min transfer per card via eSATA.
I’m leaning toward ProRes, but I would appreciate if someone could tell me why that’s wrong.
Thoughts?
Thank you for your time.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.8
AE CS5
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM -
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No serious reason to not use ProRes 4444 IMHO. The reason uncompressed might be better is the fact that when a render happens, the computer doesn’t have to uncompress the compressed file, add the filter or whatever, then recompress it back to the codec set in the sequence. This results in a no loss render. ProREs is darn close though. Also believe it or not, Uncompressed renders faster… because it doesn’t have to un then re compress…
Jerry
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How you like-in the 3700 you lucky s.o.b.?
nicely.
Chris Tompkins
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Sorry to disappoint, but it’s a rental.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.8
AE CS5
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM
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